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a bargaining chip
(redirected from a bargaining counter)

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a bargaining chip  (British, American & Australian) also a bargaining counter (British)
something that you can use to make someone do what you want The workers' strongest bargaining chip in the negotiations is the threat of strike action. Hostages were used as a bargaining counter during the seige.
See also: bargain, chip
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There seems little doubt that the Government wishes to use the Bill as a bargaining counter for support for the Foundation Hospitals Bill and for education legislation that is looming hull down on the horizon.
Willy Poole Column by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
There was the fear, for which there was some justification, that the SS (who were being put in charge of the camps) would round up p-o-w's as a bargaining counter with the Allied troops.
Allied Pow's and the Collapse of Nazi Germany. by Munson, James / Contemporary Review
Republican Sinn Fein President Ruairi O Bradaigh accused Sinn Fein of treachery, saying: "These arms were given to the Provos for the freedom of Ireland and not as a bargaining counter for securing, maintaining and expanding office in Stormont, Westminster and Leinster House.
IRA GOES TO THE POLLS; Four weeks from election Provos destroy more ... by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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